In: Gaming News|Indie
28 Jun 2010Finally, I can show off what’s been keeping me so preoccupied for the past week (and all morning as well!), as we announce the opening of the 2011 Independent Games Festival and explain all the changes we’ve prepared for its 13th year. Chief amongst those is the addition of a new category for iPhone/iPad, DS, [...]
A few months back, I mentioned Game Seeds, the card game created by Utrecht School of the Arts, Monobanda and Metagama to help game designers brainstorm both character design and entire games, by playfully combining their specific mechanics. The post quite happily got far more attention than I would’ve imagined, and (especially after I’d posted [...]
You’ve already seen an extensive breakdown of the concept art behind Double Fine‘s nü-cult-classic Brutal Legend right here on Boing Boing, but above, interface designer Joe ‘codeloss‘ Kowalski goes awesomely in-depth on work he put into the menu and title screen systems — a system brilliantly aping the wonderful yesteryear of gatefold sleeves and ballpoint-pen [...]
In: Gaming News
28 May 2010Can playing videogames train you as a lucid dreamer? Psychologist Jayne Gackenbach thinks so, according to work she presented at this week’s Games for Health Conference in Boston. For several years, Gackenbach, a researcher at Grant MacEwan University, studied similarities in skills between gamers and individuals who have learned to control their dreams. She also [...]
This month’s most exciting reveal: Media Molecule have officially debuted the first video of their sequel to the PS3′s fully customizable arts&craft-y game LittleBigPlanet. With a clever and appropriate turn of phrase, the Molecules say the sequel will bring the game from a “platformer” to a “platform for games”, and have backed that up with [...]
In: Gaming News|xbox
30 Apr 2010Sometimes all you need is 74 seconds to convince the world that they’ll want your game, as Sweden’s Southend have just proved with their debut trailer for upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title ilomilo. Tick the checkboxes: tiny, innocent fantasy world, puzzling gameplay on the order of underappreciated original PlayStation game Kula World/Roll Away, and I’m [...]
In: Gaming News|Indie|iPhone
27 Apr 2010Following a semi-depressing seasonal lull in truly outstanding iPhone games, it appears that the indie dev community is starting to make a springtime comeback. Case in point: Kometen, the first iPhone game from Erik Svedäng, creator of Indie Games Fest 2009 grand prize winner Blueberry Garden (available on Steam here). Not a terrible amount is [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
8 Apr 2010Update: changed the embed to the official one from One More Production.